Envelop and letter-sheet for same.



PATENTED SEET. 27, 1904.

G. ARCHIBALD. l ENVELOP AND LETTER SEEET EOE SAME.

APPLICATION FILED DEO. 31, 1903.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

I0 MODEL.

WITNESSES:

A ATTORNEYS' No. 771,115. PATENTBD SEPT. 27, 1964.

' G. ARCHIBALD.

' ENVELOP AND LETTER SHEETFOR SAME.v

1111110111011 FILED M1131, 190s.

N0 MODEL. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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# O Broadway, NX Cityl WTNESSES: /NVENTR Armar/E Patented September 27, 1904.

GRANT ARCHIBALD, OF NEW ROCHELLE,

NEW YORK.

ENVELOP AND LETTER-SHEET FOR SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 771,115, dated September 27, 1904.

Application led December 31,1903. Serial No. 187,341.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GRANT ARCHIBALD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New Rochelle, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Envelop and Letter-Sheet for the Same, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

-The purpose of my invention is to provide a construction of an envelop and a letter or bill sheet especially adapted thereto which will admit of a folding stub forming av portion of the letter or bill sheet after having been addressed on one or both sides vto be passed through openings in the envelop when the letter or bill is placed therein and the stub be secured at the outer face of the envelop in a manner to disclose an address, rendering it unnecessary to write or print the address on the envelop.

Another purpose of the invention is to provide the stub with two addressesreading in opposite directions from the free Lipper edge of the stub-namely, the address of the sender and the address of the person to whom the missive is sent`thereby enabling the name and address of the party addressed to be exposed at the outer face of the envelop when the letter is first placed in the envelop and enabling the receiver to return the bill with a remittance, for example, at which time it is simply necessary for the sender to reverse the folding of the bill-sheet, when the bill is again introduced into the envelop, to place and secure a tab in such position as to expose the name and address of the original sender, and whereby, further, the original sender upon the receipt of the returned envelop and bill can after acknowledging a remittance or answering a complaint fold the sheet as originally folded and again secure the tab at the outer face of the envelop to again expose the name and address of the person first written to.

rlhe invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

(No model.)

Figure l is a front elevation, partly in section, of the improved envelop, illustrating the manner in which the address is exposed, which address is on a portion ofthe sheet contained in the envelop. Fig. 2 is a section taken practically on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a portion of a sheet used in connection with the envelop. Fig. 4 is a plan View of the bill-sheet adapted to the improved envelop. Fig. 5 is a View similar to that shown in Fig. 4, except that the sheet is folded down to expose an address on the back of the stub on the sheet. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the folded sheet, illustrating the folding of the stub and the position of the parts of the sheet when the sheet is to be introduced into the envelop. Fig. 7 is a section taken through the envelop from top to bottom and the sheet therein folded and introduced as indicated in Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a View similar to that shown in Fig. 6, the sheet, however, being shown folded and the stub in position to be introduced into the envelop when the letter is to be returned to the sender; and Fig. 9 is a section through the envelop, taken from top to bottom, and through a sheet in'the envelop folded and introduced in the form shown in Fig. 8, illustrating how under such conditions the returnaddress on the tab is exposed at the exterior of the envelop.

The envelop A is provided with two or more (usually two) slots l0 and 11 in its front surface, and said slots are preferably made to extend parallel with the upper and lower edges of the envelop in parallel lines, as illustrated; but the slots may be otherwise shaped and disposed, and otherwise the envelop may be of the ordinary construction.

The sheet B to be placed in the envelop described is provided with longitudinal slots 12 and 13, which extend from the upper edge of the sheet a predetermined distance in direction of the lower edge, thus forming a stub O capable of being folded backward or forward. The sheet B may be plain, with the exception of the usual heading, which can extend across the stub O, as is shown in Fig. 2, or the sheet may be in the form of a bill or statement, as is shown in Figs. 4c and 5. When the sheet is a letter-sheet, as is shown in Fig. 3, the

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. remote supposition, and it is also evident that name of the sender and his business may be produced thereon in the customary manner; but upon the reverse side of the stub C the name and address of the proposed receiver is produced in any convenient manner. After the sheet B has been written upon the sheet is properly folded to lit into the envelop-*for example, after the manner illustrated in Fig. gand, as is shown in the same figure, the stub C is folded downward and forward, as is also illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 3 and in positive lines in Fig. 6. The sheet B thus folded is introduced in the customary manner into the envelop A, and the folded stub, which now presents the name and address of the proposed receiver of the letter, is passed first through the upper slot l() in the envelop, and then from the outside of the envelop inwardly through the lower slot l1, as is illustrated in Figs. 2 and 7, thereby bringing the address on the stub and the body of the stub on which the address is produced at the front of the envelop, andl it is therefore evident that when the envelop is sealed in the ordinary manner the address will remain intactunless the address is maliciously torn off, which is a very as the stub at its end extends into the inner portion of the envelop for some distance the stub could not be removed under any conditions in the handling of mail.

As is disclosed in Figs. L and 5, the name and address of the sender may be placed upon the front surface of the stub C to be read in connection with other matterfor example, on the body of the sheet at each side of the stub-and upon the opposite or rear side of the stub C the name of the party to whom the sheet is to be sent is produced, the name of the sender reading, as usual,from the direction of the top of the stub in its normal condition, While the name of the party to whom the sheet is to be sent is made to read in an opposite direction, or in direction from the point of connection of the stub with the sheet, as is shown in Figs. 5 and S. `When the name of the original sender is produced on the stub, as is shown in Fig. LL, and the name of the partyT to Whom the sheet is to be sent is produced on the opposite side of the stub, such a sheet is intended to be returned to the original sender. When the original sender has presented a bill, for example, having' the stub C formed thereon, as illustrated in the said Figs. 4 and 5, the sheet is folded as is shown in Fig. 6 and is placed in the envelop in the manner described, namely: The stub C is folded down to expose the back, and the said stub is then passed outward through the slot l0 in the envelop and inward through the lower slot 11. When a letter of the character described is received by a party and a reply is to be sent-for example, a remittance#- it is simply necessary for the receiver to reverse the folding of the sheet B, as is shown in Fig. 8, inclose the remittance, and to then place the sheet in an envelop cut as specified in such manner that the stub C shall pass first out through the lower slot l1. Next the stub C is turned upward and its free end is made to pass through the upper slot lO of the envelop into the interior thereof, as is shown in Fig. 9, thus exposing the name of the original sender. Upon the receipt of the returned letter the bill inclosed, for example, is receipted. The bill-sheet is then folded as it was first folded and, as is shown in Fig. 6, is placed in another envelop constructed as described, the stub being then passed as at first out through the upper slot 10 of the envelop and down into the lower slot 11, thus again exposing the name and address of the party to whom the letter was originally sent. Thus it will be observed that under the construction described there is no necessity for the person first sending the envelop to address the same or the person receiving the letter to address a return-envelop or a person receiving the return-message to address an envelop to the party having returned it.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent4 l. The combination of an envelop having openings in one of its faces, and a letter-sheet having a section adapted to pass through said openings.

2. The combination of an envelop having openings in one of its faces and a letter-sheet having a section adapted to pass through the said openings and engage with the outer face of the envelop, as described.

3. The combination of an envelop having openings in one of its faces, and a letter-sheet having a folding stub arranged to pass through the openings in the envelop, as described.

4. The combination of an envelop having parallel openings in one of its faces and a letter-sheet having parallel slots at one edge forming a folding stub, which stub when the sheet is placed in theJ envelop passes through the said openings, as set forth.

5. A letter or bill sheet having cuts at one end, the material between the cuts constituting an integral stub adapted to be folded on the said sheet.

6. A letter or bill sheet having parallel cuts produced at one of-its edges, forming a stub,

which stub is capable of being folded upon either face ofthe sheet at a point adjacent to the inner ends of the said cuts, as described.

In testimonywhereof lhave signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CORNELIUS VANDER Snn, HARRY S. THwArrEs.

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